27 Jan 08 - Macro outing at Alexandra Hospital

[Simon]

Thanks for the turn out, weather stayed with us till we packed up and have our lunch. Hope you guys enjoy the outing and also hope you guys can share your experience on it. Hope Benny wouldn't find it too tiring .

here are some of my pics

#1


#2


#3


#4


#5


#6


#7


#8

[hwchoy]

#4 should look better if you rotate to landscape.

[Simon]

the angle of the shot will make it unnatural

[trident]

Simon,
All the butterflies are so beautifully taken.
That was quick posting, I just finish changing water, now going for dinner.
Will have to post my pictures later.
Pity I didn't get the leapard lacewing.
A big thank you to all who turn up today, I had a swell time.

[Goondoo]

[Simon]

Billy, try pushing up your ISO or lowering your shutterspeed to achieve a nicer background. For subjects like the jumping spider in #2, you will need more DOF to capture more of the subject

[Goondoo]

My ISO cannot push high high like your 40D leh.... oops... Even 400 can see pretty much of noise. HUAT ah! Tonight swee swee can buy a D300 liao! HUAT ah!

[wasabi8888]

Wah... looks like I missed a great outing.....

so ah... I am sure all of you are not tired.... when is the next one ah?

[Simon]

depends keen to visit Ubin next week? organised by my butterfly group

[trident]

Here's my take

#1 Spider

#2 Knight Female

#3 Hover Fly

#4 Another Fly

#5 Yet another fly

#6 Caterpillar

[benny]

Wah!!! So fast!! I think the trip today was definitely much better. But unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to show for. Went home with 40 shots, but looks like they didn't come out good. Shame.

Richard and billy's shots are all nice!

Cheers,

[Simon]

Richard, your pic lack sharpness, did you crop down the pic or are these uncropped version?

[trident]

Benny,
Thanks. Sure your pictures didn't turn out well? That's a real shame.
I was waiting for your caterpillar and dragonfly shots.
This outing was definitely much better, especially with M so nearby!

Simon, yes most of the pictures were cropped. only the knight is not cropped

[Goondoo]

Wah!!! So fast!! I think the trip today was definitely much better. But unfortunately, I don't have any pictures to show for. Went home with 40 shots, but looks like they didn't come out good. Shame.

Richard and billy's shots are all nice!

Cheers,

Cannot be la!!! You should have at least a few good shot of that dragonfly, right?

Richard, your pic lack sharpness, did you crop down the pic or are these uncropped version?

Sianz.... No luck this weekend, will try again next time....
Mean while must try cheaper options...

Will repost my pictures in next few days after major editing...

[Simon]

forgotten to post this

[wasabi8888]

Here is some of mine when I went on my own on Friday







Shots are not very sharp, due to the strong wind...

[Merviso]

Hi guys, thanks for the wonderful session.

Here comes the newbie's shots, taken with automode, without flash, uncropped with only resize.. still looks a long way from all your wonderful shots










All comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated !

[benny]

Jeffrey,

The last one is actually quite nice.

Anyway, here's the only flower shot I got today..

Merv,

The last three shots are exceptional! Looks like you are improving very fast!

Cheers,

[Merviso]

Thanks Benny..

Looks like I can't really take as macro a shot take your guys are doing now with my current skill level, therefore, think I will work more on the picture composition and hopefully can tell more story with my shots..

Hi Jeffery, on a side note, maybe you can work on your picture presentation style...
The blue wordings on the black background is not very contrasting and therefore more difficult to read. Also, your picture is cropped with different dimension and ratio, thus when presented together looks a bit messy.

Think Simon's way of flaming up the picure is quite professional especially when presenting a whole series of photos.. Just my humble opinon...

[wasabi8888]

Hi Mervin

No problem with your comments....

the funny thing with the blue words was that it looks ok on PS, but not on the AQ gallery. Looking at how to improve that.

On the cropping part, I know what you mean but I dont know how to solve it. I crop for the best image and sometimes it does mean that the crop is not the same dimensions... not sure how to change that though....